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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 17 april 2018
Trove of author Ray Bradbury's papers set for preservation

By RICK CALLAHAN nation," he said. Bradbury's
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ray major works, including "The
Bradbury won over gen- Martian Chronicles" and
erations of readers to sci- "The Illustrated Man," re-
ence fiction with "Fahren- main in print and HBO will
heit 451" and other works next month air a version
during a writing career that of "Fahrenheit" starring Mi-
spanned much of the 20th chael Shannon, Michael B.
Century and produced a Jordan and Sofia Boutella.
mountain of manuscripts, Meanwhile, the Bradbury
correspondence and center, which is near down-
memorabilia.That sprawl- town Indianapolis and fea-
ing collection, much of tures a replica of the base-
which Bradbury's family ment office in Los Angeles
donated after his death in where the author wrote for
2012 at age 91, is now en- decades, is preparing to
tering a long-running pres- delve into the collection
ervation project at its home he left behind for what's ex-
on the campus of Indiana pected to be a yearslong
University-Purdue University preservation effort. It won't
at Indianapolis. be an easy task: The collec-
The Center for Ray Bradbury tion weighs nearly 30,000
Studies , which is devoted pounds and includes un-
to the study of the science In this Thursday, April 12, 2018, photo, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies director Jonathan Eller published works, 120,000
talks about the vast trove of manuscripts, correspondence and memorabilia that science fiction-
fiction-fantasy author's fantasy writer Ray Bradbury in Indianapolis. pages of his typescripts
works, won a $50,000 grant Associated Press and other documents as
this month from the Nation- well as photos and memo-
al Endowment for the Hu- befriended Bradbury in the hunt down and burn books "He stands as much as any rabilia. There's also about
manities to begin planning 1980s and directs the cen- to keep society in a state author for freedom of the 30,000 pages of Bradbury's
the giant archive's conser- ter, which he co-founded of ignorance, Eller said imagination. With 'Fahren- incoming correspondence,
vation. "This is a national in 2007. Although Bradbury many of his works remain heit 451,' which was written including letters from as-
treasure and we have the wrote his most famous titles relevant because of their when there was a climate tronauts and astronomers
great, good fortune to be in the mid-20th century, in- warnings about the misuse of fear in America and who were fans of his space-
able to preserve his legacy cluding "Fahrenheit 451," a of technology and the im- McCarthyism, and other age tales, and some 1,600
here for years to come," novel about a dystopian portance of safeguarding works, he's still synonymous rare pulp magazines such
said Jonathan Eller, who future in which "firemen" the human imagination. with freedom of the imagi- as "Amazing Stories."q

'Night Court' star Harry Anderson, 65, found dead in home

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. being a magician as well cial effects at the festival." "I am richer than Davy
Associated Press as actor. Anderson learned the Crockett," Anderson said
Harry Anderson, the actor "I got into magic when I ropes as a street performer in the story. "I can settle
best known for playing an was a child," he told The As- in San Francisco, New Or- back and do what I want
off-the-wall judge working sociated Press in 1987. "Un- leans, and Austin, Texas, to do. And what I want to
the night shift of a Manhat- like most kids, I stayed with among other cities. When do is card tricks and mag-
tan court room in the tele- it. My high school teach- he made his first appear- ic.' That includes magic
vision comedy series "Night ers were always asking me ance on "Saturday Night shows for corporate clients
Court," was found dead in what I was going to do. It Live," he was right off the ("Fifty-five minutes with ap-
his North Carolina home made me what I am today street. plause," says Anderson) at
Monday. — available for weekend "Cheers' was my first act- $20,000 a pop.
Anderson was 65. employment, parties and ing job, but it was basically According to the story, An-
A statement from the Ashe- bar mitzvahs." the character I had de- derson was disenchanted
ville Police Department said Anderson, was born in veloped on the street," he by the prospect of chas-
officers responded to a call Newport, Rhode Island, on said. "That's now I made my ing acting roles into middle
from Anderson's home ear- Oct. 14, 1952. He grew up living, hustling drinks in bars age. "I don't understand
ly Monday and found him in New York and moved and quarters on the street." why guys have that Don
dead. The statement said to Oregon when he was a "Night Court" ran on NBC In this May 19, 1988, file photo, Knotts syndrome of having
foul play is not suspected. teenager and said that's from 1984 until 1992, and Harry Anderson poses after to be out there." He sold his
On "Night Court," Ander- where he became a hip- Anderson received three a press conference in New home in Pasadena, Cali-
son played Judge Harry T. pie. lead comedy actor Emmy York. Authorities said, Mon- fornia, and moved back
Stone, a young jurist who "The Shakespeare Festi- nominations for his role. Af- day, April 16, 2018, that ac- to New Orleans, where he
tor Harry Anderson of "Night
professed his love for singer val at Ashland, Oregon, ter the show ended, he was Court" comedy series fame had lived in the 1970s.
Mel Torme, actress Jean seemed like a good place cast in the lead role in the died in North Carolina. Following the devastation
Harlow, magic tricks and his to open a magic store," CBS sitcom "Dave's World," Associated Press of Hurricane Katrina, he
collection of art-deco ties. he said. "At 18, I was ready which was based on the moved to Asheville.
He also starred in the se- for retirement. It didn't last life of Pulitzer Prize-winning in 2002 said Anderson dis- Anderson had two children
ries "Dave's World" and ap- long, but I was established humor columnist Dave Bar- appeared from Hollywood from his first marriage to
peared on "Cheers" as con as the magician. I worked ry. That series ran from 1993 and resurfaced as the own- Leslie Pollack. His second
man Harry 'The Hat' Gittes. the streets in San Francisco until 1997. er of a New Orleans magic wife, Elizabeth Morgan, is
Anderson prided himself on and I did magic and spe- A People magazine story shop. among his survivors. q